Collaborative Specialization in One Health – Students & Alumni


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About my work: My research aims to use a One Health approach to identify and map the transmission pathways of dominant zoonotic pathogens (water-borne and fecal-borne) causing disease in people, domestic animals, and lemurs (endangered species) sharing the same environment in Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar.


Program: Population Medicine (One Health)

Advisor: Dr. Lauren Grant

Funding: One Health Partnership Award

About my work: My research is focused on understanding risks associated with leptospirosis, a neglected and climate-sensitive zoonotic disease with significant impacts on both animal and human health. Using a One Health approach, I am exploring how social, environmental, and climatic factors influence current and future risk of canine leptospirosis in Canada.

Carys collecting water samples for pathogen analysis.

Program: Epidemiology (One Health)

Advisors: Dr. Kelsey Spence and Dr. Charlotte Winder

Funding: Ontario Agri-Food Alliance, Ontario Sheep Farmers, Ontario Goat, and Saputo Inc

About my work: My research aims to explore the potential for disease spread on Ontario sheep and goat farms by identifying perceptions and barriers hindering the implementation of biosecurity measures. This study will be looked at from a One Health lens, exploring human, animal, and environmental factors that influence biosecurity use.


Advisor: Dr. Katie Clow

Funding: OVC Graduate Scholarship and Ontario Graduate Scholarship (AKC Canine Health Foundation Grant for my research)

Publications

Ecological determinants of leishmaniasis vector, Lutzomyia spp.: A scoping review.

DeWinter, S., Shahin, K., Fernandez-Prada, C., Greer, A. L., Weese, J. S. and Clow, K. M. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 2024-07, 1-14 | Read PDF | Read Online


Multiple species of canine Rhipicephalus complex detected in Canada.

Meyers, S., Clow, K. M., DeWinter, S., Sundstorm, K. and Little, S.

 Veterinary Parasitology: Regional Studies and Report (Amsterdam), 2024-02, Vol.48, p.100976-100976, Article 100976 | Read PDF | Read Online


Infestation patterns of Ixodes scapularis and Dermacentor vareiabilis on dogs and cats across Canada

DeWinter, Sydney ; Bauman, Cathy ; Peregine, Andrew ; Weese, J Scott ; Clow, Katie M; Stevenson, Brian

PloS one, 2023-02, Vol.18 (2), p.e0281192-e0281192 | Read PDF | Read Online


Assessing the spatial and temporal patterns and risk factors for acquisition of Ixodes spp. by companion animals across Canada.

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Program: Epidemiology

Advisor: Dr. Jane Parmley

Funding: The Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Bioaerosols project (Universite Laval)

About my work: I’m collecting and analyzing environmental antimicrobial resistance data with different One Health and modelling approaches.

Publications

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment: Towards Elucidating the Roles of Bioaerosols in Transmission and Detection of Antibacterial Resistance Genes

George, P. B., Rossi, F., St-Germain, M. W., Amato, P., Badard, T., Bergeron, M. G., Maldonado, M.P…. & Duchaine, C. (2022). Antibiotics, 11(7), 974. | Read PDF | Read Online

 


Advisor: Dr. Lauren Grant

Funding: Public Health Agency of Canada

John Mallare, MSc: Winter, 2024

“Exploring COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality During the First Three Epidemic Waves in Ontario, Canada: A One Health Perspective to Assessing Risk”

Funding: Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence, One Health Institute

About my work: Atmospheric pollutants recognized as respiratory stressors can originate from intensive animal farming. Using a One Health perspective and machine learning, my work explored regional variations in prolonged exposure to atmospheric pollutants associated with animal farming as risk factors for COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada.

Publications

Mallare, John. MSc. Thesis: Exploring COVID-19 Morbidity and Mortality During the First Three Epidemic Waves in Ontario, Canada: A One Health Perspective to Assessing Risk. Department of Population Medicine, May, 2023.


Advisors: Dr. Claire Jardine (Pathobiology), and Dr.  Jennifer Provencher with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

Funding: OVC Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative as well as ECCC.

Publications

Assessing plastic ingestion in birds of prey from British Columbia, Canada.

Schutten, Kerry ; Chandrashekar, Akshaya ; Bourdages, Madelaine ; Bowes, Victoria ; Elliott, John ; Lee, Sandi ; Redford, Tony ; Provencher, Jennifer ; Jardian, Claire ; Wilson, Laurie

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2023-07, Vol.30 (31), p.76631-76639 | Read PDF | Read Online


Population dynamics and the influence of blight on American chestnut at its northern range limit: Lessons for conservation.

Van Drunen, Stephen G. ; Schutten, Kerry ; Bowen, Christine ; Boland, Greg J. ; Husband, Brian C. Forest ecology and management, 2017-09, Vol.400, p.375-383 | Read PDF | Read Online


How do life history and behaviour influence plastic ingestion risk in Canadian freshwater and terrestrial birds?

Environmental pollution (1987), 2024-04, Vol.347, p.123777-123777, Article 123777 | Read PDF | Read Online


Plastic ingestion, accumulated heavy metals, and health metrics of four Larus gull species feeding at a coastal landfill in eastern Canada.

Journal of hazardous materials, 2024-09, Vol.476, p.135107, Article 135107 | Read PDF | Read Online


West Nile virus seroconversion in eastern Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus Migrans) after vaccination with a killed vaccine.

Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine, 2021-04, Vol.52 (1), p.185-191 | Read Online


Successful foaling by a Standardbred mare with a ruptured prepubic tendon.

Schutten, Kerry J V

Canadian veterinary journal, 2016-12, Vol.57 (12), p.1287-1289 | Read PDF | Read Online   


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